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Fall 2010
Dec 13,2017

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COMM 420 - RACE,ETHNICITY & CROSS CULTURAL JOURNALISM

This is a 400-level capstone course designed to help students explore diversity and its journalistic role in covering the total community in the 21st Century. Students will research, report and write stories about an underreported community in New Jersey. In the process, students will learn the broader definitions of diversity, including historical context and meaning. They will become more aware of the changing demographics of the U.S.--both locally and nationally--and analyze the role that journalists play in shaping public opinion about emerging and underreported communities. Students will think critically about the role media plays in conveying accurate coverage of diverse groups and, in the process, examine their own views about race, ethnicity, and class among other diversity fault lines used by professional journalists. This course emphasizes the process of finding and developing diverse sources, not only for racial and cultural stories, but general stories as well.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lab, Studio

Communications Department

Course Attributes: GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergraduate

Prerequisites:
FOR COMM 420

General Requirements: (
Course or Test:
COMM
208
Minimum Grade of
D
May not be taken concurrently.
)or(
Course or Test:
COMM
365
Minimum Grade of
D
May not be taken concurrently.
)